Boxers are involved in all sorts of fights. They fight themselves daily, making war on their bodies and minds to prepare themselves for the ring. They...
“Give it up, or you’ve got to get in the ring with Erislandy Lara.” That’s Ronnie Shields’ message to Floyd Mayweather. Shields’ fighter, Lara, is the...
I traveled to Washington, D.C. over the weekend hoping to discover the truth about Lamont Peterson. The current IBF junior welterweight titleholder is a case-study of...
Someday there will just be rumors of fights, stirring legends from long ago, shadows on the wall. Children will disobey their parents to sneak into forts...
In 1519, Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda discovered a sleepy bay on the South Texas coastline. He named the settlement Corpus Christi in honor of...
Adrien Broner (27-1, 22 KOs) announced via Twitter this week that he wants an immediate rematch with Marcos Maidana (35-3, 31 KOs). Broner suffered the first...
“Erislandy Lara, if you don’t know by now, is the best junior middleweight in the world right now,” Ronnie Shield, Lara’s trainer, told me during Christmas...
Despite inroads made by rival Showtime this year, the folks over at HBO Boxing still consider themselves to be the leading television platform for the sport...
Dear Santa, While I haven’t written you in many, many years, it has recently come to my attention that your magical abilities might be useful in...
According to a person with knowledge of the situation, the Big Mac award is fast-becoming the most prestigious and important award in boxing today. In fact,...